Change the World

Change the World - Editing

I have heard of a book, upon the pages

of which, are written the stories and songs and dreams of my life.

Did I catch a glimpse of this when I was born and this is where

my sense of purpose arises from. Can anyone have the sight

to see such words and also comprehend the meaning.

I have held the book of life in my soul

filled hands midst deep meditation when all the world was nought

but star dust and whimsy, and all of existence was laid bare,

before my heart’s eyes and soul’s mind and I saw all

and one for aeons and lives before me.

I turn each page of my book of life,

one painstakingly crafted ethereal page at a brief glimpsed time.

Not for me to jump to the end of the chapter to discover my

fault filled future or seek the cusps upon which a different

path could be walked into a brighter world.

I exist line by line by glorious line 

unedited by any hand other than those I have held close

in my own and kissed and held dear and parried and

reached out to share and build and heal the lives

I and we must perforce be embraced.

We all edit our lives and thoughts and hearts

meanwhile moving inexorably through each breath driven moment.

Do we pause to consider what may have been if we made that

other choice and took that other turn instead of erasing

those options and putting full stop to them.

We are an unfolding saga touched by all the stories

of all time ever written by all of the greatest authors of human

endeavour across the long dark centuries of chronicled

thought, word and deed, then only to later find an

addendum of omissions left unedited.

You, reading this, let life turn the page

of your heart song and souls sonnet, lest you insert a clause

that no omnipotent divinity could absolve even in that

moment of last breath when nothing else matters

and you let go of your minds track changes.

Listen to yourself and live by the first thought

and word and let pass that second that would edit the life

choices you make in each and every moment of breathed

time. Exhale the editing and breath deep of each

delicious moment of your one gifted life.